Street of Shame
is a 1956 Japanese drama film and the last film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. The story, which revolves around a group of women of different backgrounds who work together in a brothel in Tokyo, is based on the novel Susaki no onna by Yoshiko Shibaki.
Plot
Street of Shame revolves around the lives of five female prostitutes working at Dreamland, a licensed brothel owned by the Tayas in a red-light district in Tokyo's Yoshiwara district, while the Diet reconsiders a ban on prostitution.
More details
| author | Masashige Narusawa |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Tokyo |
| director | Kenji Mizoguchi Yasuzō Masumura |
| editor | Kanji Sugawara |
| events | prostitution |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | diet diet of japan elderly widow evict kobe married man meet red-light district struggle think want yoshiwara young woman |
| musicBy | Toshirō Mayuzumi |
| producer | Masaichi Nagata |
| productionCompany | Daiei Film |
| publisher | Daiei Film |
| theme | japanese |